elizabeth and mike and i are here to see more community health centers and get a feel for what we can do to increase american's access to health care. (i don't know why this photo is sideways like this)

this is the view from the roof of the the LA mission's roof to the east

this is what it looks like to the westlittle tokyo lofts are on sellthey advertise that:it's 12 miles from beverly hillsit's a million miles from beverly hillsthey don't advertise that:its 3 blocks from skidrowbut ignoring it like it is a million miles from skid rowwith prices starting in the $300,000s.

here is the crewthe usual and herb and susan

mike is directing

he is looking down at thisthe skidrowplease note the photos on the wall.

this doesn't capture all the activity that is buzzing around this center.they provide overnight beds to 180 men each nightand about 50 beds for womenthen they have residential programs that help get people out of povertyabout 200 men at anyone timeand about 80 womenand they are only scatching the surface

here are the people on skidrowtoday i saw men smoking crack and shooting heronone of the guys in this photo did it right in front of meapparently there aren't as many people on "heroine road"as there was a couple of weeks agothe police were hanging out for a good long time and people leftbut the professionals say, they are on their way backthe federal funded health center provides all sorts of primary carethey find tb, syphilis, and aids at 2 and 4xs the national averagepeople like to think it is a totally different worldbut it is notwe are in the same worldblocks apartthey are americansskidrow feels different than a thirdworld shantytownbecause it isn't so distant.

we are at a VOA site where they are doing primary health care visitsthis guy was once a "student" in the la missionhe is clean and now a health outreach worker

after work i hooked up with robin of the cheryl and diane familywe ate at this awesome japanese place that just opened called takami

this is the view from where we satit was even cooler because we got to see the sun set.or at least the affects of the sun setting

here is robin on our way back to my hotel so she could hurry and get packed for somecrazy travel and workthanks for hanging out tonight robin!also, check out that moon!!!!